The background: The Human League did it in 1981-82 when they released the Dare! album followed by The League Unlimited Orchestra's Love And Dancing, and so did Soft Cell around the same time with their Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret debut LP followed by Non-Stop Ecstatic Dancing. Did what? Change the world with electronic pop songs about romance and despair and sex and death and, well, love and non-stop ecstatic dancing? Yes, that, of course that. But they went one further: they - or rather, ace early-80s producers and pioneering remixologists Martin Rushent and Mike Thorne - invented the idea of the remix album.

Spektrum have done the same with their seriously under-appreciated 2006 longplayer Fun At The Gymkhana Club and its new Death At The Gymkhana Club spin-off project, which features remakes/remodels of the debut LP's tracks by the likes of Chrome Hoof, DJ T and Tom Neville. And as with their synthpop forebears, both the original album and its remixed version are great in their own myriad different ways. But this isn't something that Spektrum can only achieve within the controlled environment of the recording studio: this four-human club-pop troupe with the serious horse fetish (come on, they dress like acid-damaged cowboy equestrians, all jodhpurs, spurs and lassos, and have songs called Horny Pony, and they even drafted in New Young Pony Club to remix them purely because of their name) are a fully-functioning live unit with an impressive ability to combine electro sonics and warped Britfunk with Timbaland-ish quirk-beats.

With Lola's playful warbles over the top of stop-start rhythms, The Bones and Cut Me Off (I Just Start Again) are what we dreamily imagined the Tim-Bjork team-ups were going to sound like. Put it this way: if Missy Elliot went back in time - and she probably could, she's that talented - to work with Frank Zappa, it might have sounded a bit like The Mirror Man (no relation to the H League song of the same title) and these other examples of satiric boogie. But Spektrum aren't having fun at underground clubbers' expense. Moody Feels Good, Horny Pony, Cedar (The Heat Lodge) and particularly the miraculously funky Don't Be Shy are classics of straight-up new electro-disco.

The buzz: "Goldfrapp meets Bow Wow Wow, funk goes electro-Burundi!"

The truth: We feel deeply ashamed that we didn't bring this group to your attention before.

Most likely to: Make Neneh Cherry wish she was still our kind of climate.

Least likely to: Make you want to go horse-riding.

File next to: ESG, Rip Rig & Panic, Instinct, Grace Jones.

What to buy: Death At The Gymkhana Club (with the original Fun At... as CD2) is released by StopStart on November 5.